The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-01-27


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POSITION.
The lower house Of the Legislature Of
Illinois, has passed a bill appropriating
s50, 900 for monument to Gen. Jno. q.
Logan, to be erected at Chicago.
The House Committee On public build
ings has decided to report favorably the
bill to Increase the appropriation for Har-
risonburg $40, making the entire ap-
preparation 800 eco.
Three fires have occurred al steVeasburg,
c alpeper county, this month. the work OF
i ndiaries. Buttons machine shop,
with its contents 1.-The residence OF A. j.
Bailey, and the old Methodist church.
Geo. M. Ba n, j.. cashier Of the late Elk
clsnge National Bank Of Norfolk, was
s .ntel C d III the U. S. Circuit Court on
the 10Th, TO Eve years Imprisonment in the
Albany penitentiary, for fraud.
Gov. Lee is hunting up q Vice Fresi-
.ntial boom and has gone to an ice carni-
val in Minnesota to look after it. 1t will
be cold comfort for him both in the search
ana in tie thing Itself, when he gets it.
On Thursday last the Supreme Court
affirmed the decree of the Circait Court,
confirming the sale Of the Rockbridge
Alum Springs property to Messrs. Camp
bell and others. The case had been ap-
appealed ly JAS 4, Frazier, Esq.
y :,tn Ca+h "a
convent at Greelfeld, Michigan, last
Wednesday week, and attempted to out
rage a nun, aged q years, was on the GOTH
sentenced TO twenty years in the State
prison. Hanging was too good for him.
The wife of Eon D. w. VOORHEES,, died
in Washington on the 2ist, after weeks
illness. She WAS taken sick with conges-
tive chlis, followed by inflammation of the
bowels. Which resulted fatally. Her age
was 50. The remairs were taken to Ierre
IIaute, lid, for intermcnt. Her husband
ISL. S. Senator from Indiana. and one Of
her sous tie dele gate in Congress from
Washington Territory.
Mrs Tunstall, the aunt Of .Cluverius.
says she will not accept q dollar of the
proceeds Of the sale Of the life OF the de-
ceased, bat that she desires the whole
amount to be given to Willie Cluverius.
the brother Of the dead man. The first
clifton OF the book, 10 600, has been dis
posed of. and the second edition, with
some additional statements, is now being
printed and will soon be issued.
a specitl from Bristol. Tenn dated
the 2lst. says. that dispatch has just
been received from Philadelphia, Pa. Or
dering the chief engineer Of the Norfolk
and Western railroad to Immediately
make the necessary survey for lire to
connect that road with tie Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas railroad. The en-
gineers will start to work at Bristol next
Monday.
A special session of the United States
Court convened in IIarr:sonburg Oh the
25th-Judge Paul presiding. 70 day, the
9th. it was expected Judge Bend would
arrive to Sit with HGge Paul in some I'M
portant eases. in which the Abbot Iron
Works and citizens of Rockingham are
parties plaintiff ard DEFENDANTS Judge
Sheffey and ". i. Craig. Esq Of Staun-
ton, are among the attorneys present
Miss Nina Van Zandt, the young lady
who wants to marry August Spies, the
Chicago Anarchist, now under sentence of
death. is to go to Europe, with her moth
er, and take up her residence in Paris, un-
til the liuaI decision is made il the appeal
Spies to the Sapreme Court Of Illinois.
6er rich grandfather and aunt in Pi- U.s.
Bag have disowned her, IL cause of hr
il sane fen;y for the Anarchist and deter
N nation to marry him.
Police S-rgeant Grattan and Policeman
Chalmers were remcAfd from the Ralti-
mo force on the charge of taking rart
ia the purchase Of ticket in the Louisi-
ana lottery Had these same policemen
been guilty of stufling ballot boxes and
outraging Republicans at the polls it
would more than probable have been con-
side. ed cause fnr promotion. The Peck
saiffs are still noarishirg i'll Off 3ial posi-
tinns
The action of The Republican caucus of
Che New York Legislature in nominating
Hon. Frank iiiscock to succeed Hon.
Warner Miller in the United States Sen
ate, is favorably received by all Interests
in the party Of that State, and of the
Union. Mr. EIisccck is ali able and pure
man, and one of tie best equipped states
men of the country. lie is a leading mem
Der of the House and was elected last No
vember to the Fiftieth Congress. His
absence from the IIouse viii be missed,
but the Republicans have plenty of good
material in that body and viii not lack for
leaders.
The relations between France and Ger
many are becoming very much STRAINED,
and feeling of great unrest is manifested
not only in London. but throughout Eu-
rope, because of it. 1t is the general be-
lief that hostilities cannot be longer de-
layed than Spring. The latest bulletin is
to the effect that Germany has demanded
OF France an explanation Of the increase
of her military preparations, both of the
line and in her fertilization improvements.
If France is ia earnest in the preparations
she is making. she will scarcely recognize
che right Of Germany to make such de-
mand, and refuse to give satisfactory re-
ply. The situation'is critical and an ex-
plosion may at any time be announced,
which. will implicate the whole of Eu-
rope.
The bill recently introduced in the Sen J.
ate providing for retaliatory measures
against Canada, on account of the fishery
troubles, passed that body last Monday
with but ore dissenting vote. There were
several warlike speeches made. especially
that by Senator Frye. The President is
empowered by the bill to institute the re-
taliatory measures, when, in his judgment.
the situation requires it. The spirit mani
tested in the discussion was decidedly bel
ligerent, and unless there is a very decided
modification. reaching to a surrender of
the policy of the Canadian government
backed as it is, by the home government
the relations between the two countries
will be anything but peaceful.